Quotes About Truth

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One can anyway only be shown something one knows already, needs already. Showing anyone anything really amounts to removing the last thin film that prevents their seeing what they are looking at.

When a narrative chimes with pre-existing beliefs, it can seem so self-evidently true that all conflicting evidence is discarded.

If you don't see it with your own eyes or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with your small mind and share it with your big mouth.

The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

When a child grows old enough to know J.R.R. Tolkien was just staring at a typewriter, the truth can be a wounding exposé.

And mostly I believe the artists further the systematic murder of the real

There's something ugly about the flawless.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

She smiled darkly and shook her head. 'I'm not crazy. I'm not. Of course what else would a crazy person claim? That's the Kafkaesque genius of it all. If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point. Do you see what I'm saying?

The truth is that Robert Johnson wrestled a superb art out of the blues tradition, an art that has appealed to generations of both black and white listeners, an art that is an essential element of the ongoing progression that is the freedom principle in operation. Forget the context, the mysteries, and the lies; those twenty-nine masters represent artistic truth.

Are you aware of this acronym for F.E.A.R: False Evidence Appearing Real.

If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true. Yet we live from these beliefs as if they were true because we have never identified them clearly enough to question them, to challenge them.

are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. —BUDDHA

Washington, D.C., is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

There is no objective truth in any event, insofar as the meanings we derive from it.

My desire to tell is stronger than my shame to deny.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and ""experts"" have affirmed it. ""Studies show"" is to the modern secular college graduate what ""Scripture says"" is to the religious fundamentalist.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you're a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.

Expection the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you're a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

It occurred to Rosie that she couldn't hide either, even though the truth had been hidden from her. Now she was out from the shadows, out in the open for the first time in her life, standing in the harsh light.